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Often, things discovered for the first time are also called inventions and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. German-born Albert Einstein, world-famous physicist. Germany has been the home of many famous inventors, discoverers and engineers, including Carl von Linde, who developed the modern refrigerator. [2]
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 (2022) Jarausch, Konrad H. After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995 (2008) Junker, Detlef, ed. The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War (2 vol 2004), 150 short essays by scholars covering 1945–1990 excerpt and text search vol 1; excerpt and text search vol 2
Sports originating in Germany (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "German inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 213 total.
Aerial image of the science museum "Deutsches Museum" (center) in the city center of Munich on an island of the Isar river. The Deutsches Museum, 'German Museum' of Masterpieces of Science and Technology in Munich is one of the largest science and technology museums in the world in terms of exhibition space, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.
1945: The atomic bomb is developed by the Manhattan Project and swiftly used in August 1945 in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II. 1945: Percy Spencer, while employed at Raytheon, would patent a magnetron based microwave oven. [481] 1945: Willard Libby began his work on radiocarbon dating.
Martin Waldseemüller: Cartographer, used the name "America" on his map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The map was drawn at St-Die in 1507 and it was the first time "America" was used on a map. Otto Wallach: Chemist who researched, amongst others, alicyclic compounds. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910.
A History of West Germany Vol 1: From Shadow to Substance, 1945–1963 (1992) Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945: from war to peace (Simon and Schuster, 2012) Campion, Corey. "Remembering the" Forgotten Zone": Recasting the Image of the Post-1945 French Occupation of Germany." French Politics, Culture & Society 37.3 (2019): 79–94.
From the late 1950s, West Germany had one of the world's strongest economies. The East German economy also showed strong growth, but not as much as in West Germany, due to the bureaucratic system, emigration of working-age East Germans to West Germany, and materiel sent as reparations to the USSR. Unemployment hit a record low of 0.7–0.8% in ...